Shane Tivenan To Avenge A Dead Glacier

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To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan is a powerful collection of short stories exploring the lives of Irish outsiders, grappling with identity, isolation, and the struggle to belong.

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Description: Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 01 May 2025
Winner of the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the John McGahern Award, Shane Tivenan is a remarkable new talent. This debut collection simmers with style, verve, tension and humour. Throughout the stories in To Avenge a Dead Glacier, Tivenan explores the lives of rural Irish outsiders. His characters are artists, sean-nós singers, members of the queer community, the gifted, the neurodivergent, the environmentally concerned, people with memory problems, the spiritual people, the non-human.

In the title story, a man attends the funeral of a glacier in Iceland without fully knowing why he is there. In another, a midlands graffiti artist warns his townspeople through his throw-ups about the dangers of the way they are living, but neglects his own mind in the process. In 'Honey Brown', a ninety-two-year-old woman who suffers from Charles Bonnet syndrome tries to celebrate her birthday in a nursing home in Roscommon while fighting back the hallucinations brought on by her condition. In 'Resurrection of a Corncrake', a semi-retired plasterer is haunted by the silencing of the birds in his townland, a silencing which he knows he took part in.

These are stories rich in the essential detail of human life, in the fraught exchanges that make up our every relationship, and very often of life lived beyond the confines of safety or simplicity.
About the Author: Shane Tivenan grew up close to Athlone Town, County Roscommon. He studied Cultural Anthropology at Maynooth University. His fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, and has been broadcast on RTE Radio 1. He was awarded the 2020 RTE Francis MacManus Prize, the 2024 John McGahern Award, and was selected for the Bridport Prize Anthology in 2023.
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Reviews

'Just brilliant. These are stories with sharp edges and big ideas, and Tivenan writes with a depth of feeling and imagination that we should all be in awe of.'

-- Lisa McInerney
'There is a psychedelic brilliance to the way Shane Tivenan harnesses language. Paragraph after paragraph thrums with sound, buzzes with energy, delights with beauty. These stories straddle worlds: ancient and digital, human and animal, bog and sky; they sing with freshness and daring. What a truly stunning collection! It was a joy to read.' -- Danielle McLaughlin
'Shane Tivenan's is a voice of cyclonic force and originality. Within a couple of pages, it's clear that he's taking us - and the Irish short story - into strange, potent, visceral new territory.' -- Rob Doyle

'In a chorus of musical, deep, colloquial voices, Shane Tivenan takes us with him into an intense world of lovers and thinkers. Startling imagery and gorgeously turned phrases make this book a thrill for the reader, while always there's an unsettling haw to the back of the neck. Tivenan's is a riveting new voice.'

-- Nuala O'Connor

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